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Bookmark or Share- How to use 'as ... as' and 'so ... as' in comparison.not so adjective as - when we compare different things (different kinds) E.g.: This apple is not so nice as that orange. I'm not so tall as the horse. My grandmother is not so old as the wardrobe. My head is not so big as the melon. I'm not so intelligent as a dolphin. as adjective as - when we compare the same things (the same kinds) E.g.:
- Do these sentences have the same meaning: "I thought so." vs "That is ...For one example, "That's what I thought" can mean, "I've had that thought/opinion", whereas "I thought so" cannot have this meaning. But in contexts where the meaning is "that confirms what I believe", the two are interchangeable in all contexts I can think of. I can't confidently say there are no contexts at all where they're different.
- meaning - "if so" or "if yes" which one is correct? - English Language ...But it's not so much that it's wrong, as that it implies things a bit differently and is therefore rarer. From that ngram graph we can also see that, while putting "if so" in the middle of a sentence is almost as common as putting it at the beginning, "if yes" is very nearly always at the beginning. This points, again, to the difference in usage.
- "So am I" or "So do I"? - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeSo am I. I'm eating ice cream. So am I. You use "so have I" when you are responding to some form of the verb have. You will always use "so have I" when have is the auxiliary verb for the present perfect: I've eaten too much ice cream. So have I. You may use either "so do I" or "so have I" when have is used on its own to denote possession of ...
- What does the line "So long and thanks for all the fish!" mean?"So long and thanks for all the fish" is the title of the fourth book from the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" tetralogy. Used in a message it is just a humourous way to say goodbye, calling to mind the leaving of the dolphins from Earth saying thanks for the fish they had gotten.
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